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Dottoré!

The Way To A Doctor’s Heart

Our Neapolitan psychiatrist ponders the meaning of professional recognition, and lasagna.

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“Dottoré, I’ve made you something!”

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Money, awards, recognition, promotions — those don’t mean a thing to me.

The real reward for me comes when patients cook.

This lasagna that Francesco’s just brought me: He made it without ricotta cheese, because he remembered that I don’t like it.

As he steps in, I barely have time to register the delicious smell before I hear him exclaim: “Dottoré, I’ve made you something!”

This fills my heart with joy — before it fills my belly. That’s when I realize that, as a psychiatrist, I must be doing something right.

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A Woman’s Work Is Never Done

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“In the morning I get up at 5:30 a.m. I clean the house, then I wake up the children at 7. I get them ready, make them breakfast, then at 7:30, we leave for school. At 8:30, I start work. I clean two offices, then at 11, I go to a lady's house to clean until 3.30 p.m.

At 4 p.m. I pick up the children. I take them home and help them with their homework. Three days a week, I take my youngest to a physiotherapist at 5.30 p.m. The other days, there’s my daughter's catechism classes and my other daughter’s gym lessons. By 7:30 p.m. it's dinner time, because at 8 p.m. I have to go clean offices when they close. Then by 10 p.m. I come back and put them to bed.

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